Letters to the editor: GOP tramples on our rights

Thursday, December 27, 2012

GOP tramples on our rightsI feel totally violated by the governor, Senate and House in what was once the great state of Michigan. Does my vote no longer mean anything? In almost 40 years of voting, I have only missed one vote due to a move. Will I ever vote again? Why should I bother? I feel like I’m on a time machine that is going the wrong direction.

Our educational system is being attacked by this administration. The party that wants less government, wants to butt its nose into my gynecological appointments and my consultations with my pharmacy. As a right-to-work state do people realize that regardless of years of service and productivity, you can be fired without any cause and no notice? Like abortions before 1973 that were dangerously conducted through back doors and alleys, our illustrious leaders have used the back door of a lame duck session to ramrod seriously flawed, human rights damaging legislation.

Children’s rights, women’s rights and workers’ rights are being trampled on as we hear the governor say, “It is good for business.” Gov. Rick Snyder is a businessman. He claims not to be a politician, so re-election isn’t an issue. He will go back to his insulated, rich lifestyle where his children enjoy the luxury of private schools, and medical costs will never be an issue for him or his family. Unfortunately, for the rest of us regular nonpolitician folks, we will work diligently even if it takes years to dismantle all the harm Snyder and his cohorts have inflicted on the residents of Michigan, unless we move out first.